ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10416, 21 March 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

GBTY EDITION. PUBLISHED AT 5 P.M. '

GAS EXPLOSION. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 21, 1.1.4") a.m.') VANCOUVER, March <2O. An underground gas explosion wrecked twenty dwellings in the* IXmmoro mining district. Two families were blown to pieces or burned to death. Several houses were completely destroyed by fire, and seven women and two children are known to be dead. Earth settlings within the mines aro bolievod to havo caused the explosion.

MINING GAS EXPLOSION,

EIGHTY LTVES SUPPOSED TO BE LOST.

Tieports from Port, Smith, Arkansas, state that it hn-s born telephoned thero that a groat disaster has occurred at tlie Snnbois Coal Company's miiio at Macurton, Oklahoma. A gas oxplosion occurred entombing eighty men, all of whom are believed to bo dead.

A young man named M'Dowell was admitted to the Hospital to-dny suffering from injuries received by' a fall from a. ladder. M'Dnwell was in the employ of Captain M'Leau, of Greendale, and was working from the top of a ladder when ho lost his footing and fell heavily, sustaining severe bruises and cuits. He is progressing favourably.